Cam Newton has been mum about COVID-19 since testing positive for the novel coronavirus on Friday. He has posted two brief messages on social media, but that hardly covers the complicated situation he’s surely managing, even if he’s still asymptomatic.
In a video called “The Bigger Picture” on YouTube that has resurfaced from July, Newton discussed the spread of the disease.
“We want to live this normal life again, but it’s invisible. You don’t know if it’s here. You don’t know if I’ve got it. You don’t know if you’ve got it. You don’t know if the cameraman got it. And I think that’s the scariest thing. And for us, our sport — you pass DNA off. … Our sport dabbles in more DNA spread than probably — I think another sport would probably be boxing and UFC.”
By “DNA,” Newton probably means bacteria, which — as we’ve been seeing with an outbreak in the Tennessee Titans facility — can indeed flow freely within a football team.
Just remembered that Cam Newton shared his COVID fears in that roundtable chat in July. pic.twitter.com/YEG7hpZiP8
— Michael Hurley (@michaelFhurley) October 7, 2020
This video felt like interesting context while Newton continues to deal with COVID-19.
